1 Changes/New Features in 5.3.1:
3 @item See the docs for 2 ways to install @ESS{} for XEmacs
5 @item by uncommenting the XEmacs part of
6 Section 1 of @file{Makeconf} and performing @code{make install}
7 @item by unpacking either
8 @file{ess-5.3.1.tgz} or @file{ess-5.3.1.zip} into
9 @file{PREFIX/lib/xemacs/site-packages} on unix or
10 @file{PREFIX\XEmacs\site-packages} on windows
12 @item @ESS{[R]}: fixed bugs so that Rterm.exe can be found by XEmacs
13 @item @ESS{[S]}: @kbd{ess-toggle-S-assign-key} is slightly changed; in
14 particular, the default @code{ess-assign-key} is now @kbd{C-x =}.
15 @item @ESS{[R]}: @kbd{M-x R-site-search} is a new (slightly experimental)
16 utility similar to R's @code{RSiteSearch(..)} but with the advantage of
17 using Emacs' preferred browser, see @code{browse-url-browser-function}
20 Changes/New Features in 5.3.0:
22 @item @ESS{[BUGS]}: sanely re-format statistical output, @file{.bog},
23 from scientific notation to numbers rounded with 4 decimal places
24 with @kbd{M-x ess-bugs-sci-round-to-4-dp}.
25 @item The keys for navigating among section headings in help buffers
26 worked, but only for one language per session; they should now work for
27 multiple languages. (They were also broken on Windows machines.)
28 @item @ESS{[S]} long standing buglets in the internal logic for loading
29 lisp code on Windows. Particularly fixed behavior in help mode with S-plus
31 @item New variable, @code{ess-use-inferior-program-name-in-buffer-name},
32 which enables using the executable name instead of the dialect name for
34 @item @ESS{[S]} @kbd{ess-execute-screen-options}
35 now also works correctly when there is more than one window *side-by-side*
36 in the same frame and runs in the correct buffer also when there is more
38 @item @iESS{[S]} new functions @code{ess-eval-paragraph-and-step} and
39 @code{ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step} are bound to keys
40 @kbd{C-c C-p} and @kbd{C-c C-c} respectively and to the menu in
41 @ESS{}-mode; also bound in the help mode (for evaluating examples).
42 @item @ESS{[S]} new function @code{ess-toggle-S-assign-key} allows to
43 assign the `` <- '' insertion to an arbitrary key.
46 Changes/New Features in 5.2.12:
48 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: @kbd{M-;} fixed, but the XEmacs function @code{comment-dwim}
49 may be broken, if so, use @kbd{M-x comment-region} and @kbd{M-x
50 uncomment-region} instead; only valid PROCs are fontified which is very
51 helpful finding syntax errors (currently supported: BASE, ETS, FSP, GRAPH,
52 IML, INSIGHT and STAT); the ``feature'' where @kbd{F}-keys take you to an
53 empty buffer when the requested destination is a file that does not exist
54 has been fixed, now the request results in a no-op.
55 Further, sas-mode now also works in simple terminals.
56 @item Rterm/Cygwin combination works under Microsoft Windows.
57 @item @ESS{[R]}: internal calls use baseenv() instead of NULL and
58 define 'baseenv' where needed.
59 @item New experimental support for installing ESS. See the file
60 @file{lisp/ess-install.el}.
63 Changes/New Features in 5.2.11:
65 @item ESS Info entry and @file{dir} handled more effectively for GNU Emacs users
66 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: temporary files created for batch submission of a
67 region are now named based on the current file; see @code{ess-sas-file-root}
68 for details; all @code{lag} and @code{dif} functions now fontified correctly
69 @item iESS[SAS]: fixed a few nagging bugs, however, still does not appear to
70 work at this time; please let us know if you have any ideas.
71 @item @ESS{[S]}: Support for running other versions of Splus has been
72 added for unix. Two new variables, @code{ess-s-versions} and
73 @code{ess-s-versions-list}, are used to tell ESS what other versions of
74 Splus you would like to run.
77 Changes/New Features in 5.2.10:
79 @item @ESS{[R]}: ess-r-versions can no longer be customized (since the
80 customization was not taking effect unless customizations were loaded
81 before ESS). Its value has been changed so that it will also find R
82 executables beginning ``R-devel'' and ``R-patched''. If you wish to
83 change this variable, it must be set in your @file{.emacs} before ESS is
85 @item Installation with GNU Make enhanced: unix and unix-like
86 operating systems will now be able to install @ESS{} for all
87 users in either a GNU Emacs site-lisp or an XEmacs package
88 configuration by editing @file{lisp/ess-site.el} and @file{Makeconf}
89 accordingly, then issuing @code{make install}
90 @item @ESS{[S]}: Filename completion (inside strings) now also works in
91 XEmacs for R and S-plus.
92 @c working around a bug in Xemacs
95 Changes/New Features in 5.2.9:
97 @item @ESS{[R]} for Windows: the \ directory character bug
98 with respect to ess-load-file has been eradicated.
99 @item @iESS{[SAS]}: @kbd{C-c C-r} and @kbd{C-c C-b} once again
100 work as intended and documented.
101 @item @ESS{[S]}: M-x ess-fix-EQ-assign is a bit more agressive.
102 @item @ESS{[S]}: Imenu now also shows setAs(), etc.
103 @item @ESS{[R]}: R function pattern enhanced with underlying code such that
104 @kbd{M-C-a} (@code{ess-beginning-of-function}) etc now work for many more
105 cases, including S4 method definitions.
106 @item @iESS{[R]}: myOwnhelp(1) no longer wrongly triggers help(1).
107 @item @ESS{[R]}: Improved detection of bogus help buffers: valid help
108 buffers containing with the string ``no documentation''(e.g. contour)
109 were being treated as bogus.
110 @item @ESS{[R]}: In R help buffers, if @code{options("help.try.all.packages" =
111 TRUE)} then @code{?rlm} will list which packages rlm is defined in. This help
112 buffer is not bogus, but instead is now relabelled ``*help[R](rlm in
114 @item @ESS{[STA]}: add ``//'' as comment starting character to syntax-table.
117 Changes/New Features in 5.2.8:
119 @item iESS: [Tab] completes @strong{file} names ``inside string'' as in
120 earlier (<= 5.2.3) ESS versions.
123 Changes/New Features in 5.2.7:
125 @item If you use Custom to change the variable ess-toolbar-items,
126 the new toolbar is used in all subsequent ESS buffers.
127 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: new feature: if ess-sas-log-max >0 and
128 your .log grows to more than ess-sas-log-max bytes, just
129 the first ess-sas-log-max bytes are refreshed; this is helpful when your .sas program
130 generates lots of error messages and gets too big for emacs to display
131 @item @ESS{[R/S]}: @kbd{M-;} in R/S editing modes will now indent with
132 either one or two hashes depending on context.
133 @item @ESS{[R]}: David Whiting's Sweave extensions (to 'noweb')
134 are now available (from ess-swv.el loaded by default).
137 Changes/New Features in 5.2.6:
139 @item Removed non-ASCII characters in a few files.
140 @item @ESS{[R]}: now works better when UTF-8 locale is active; in
141 particular, you get correct directional quotes in R's startup message
142 for R-devel (unstable development version of R 2.1.0) when using
143 environment variables LANGUAGE=en@@quot LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
144 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: toggling of .log mode improved (@kbd{F10}); toggling of
145 .lst mode now also available (@kbd{C-F10}); killing all buffers associated
146 with .sas program no longer bound to @kbd{C-F10} since its a bit overzealous.
147 @item S-Plus 7 for Windows is now recognized.
148 @item @ESS{[S]} (incl.@: R): in auto-fill mode, strings are not wrapped anymore.
149 @item @ESS{[S]} (incl.@: R): font-lock now correctly differs between R and S,
150 e.g., for "_"; both now fontify warning(.) and S does terminate() additionally.
151 @item Support for `bell' aka `beep' aka `ding' aka `alarm' in all inferior
152 modes: When \a is output ``to the the console'' at the beginning of a line,
156 Changes/New Features in 5.2.5:
158 @item @ESS{[R]}: @kbd{C-c C-q} or @samp{Quit S} from the menu now should work
159 (again and less klunkily) and do not append @samp{-exited} to the
160 buffer name. Further, the behavior of @code{(ess-cleanup)}, called from
161 ess-quit, now depends on the new customizable variable
162 @code{ess-S-quit-kill-buffers-p} which defaults to @code{nil}.
163 Consequently, the question @emph{``Delete all buffers associated
164 with ..?''} will not be asked anymore by default.
165 @item @ESS{[SAS]} -- ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace will now work
166 with the @code{recode} application as well which is available on many platforms
167 @item @ESS{[S]} (incl.@: R): Name completion for slots of S4 objects now works!
170 Changes/New Features in 5.2.4:
172 @item The documentation now includes an overview of how to use the emacs
173 TAGS facility for S functions. (The distribution also used to contain a
174 directory @file{etc/other/Tags} where a ~1990 version of @file{etags.c} was
175 distributed; this is no longer relevant and so has been deleted.)
176 @item @ESS{[SAS]} -- When you are working with EBCDIC files on an ASCII
177 platform, .log NOTEs may display as gibberish since the EBCDIC
178 characters are not converted to ASCII prior to their display. So,
179 the function ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace is provided for
180 convenience and is bound to @kbd{C-F11}. This function requires the
181 @code{dd} command (only available on unix or unix-like platforms).
182 @item ESS: Completion of object names is now always done dynamically rather
183 than allowing the option of using a pre-computed database (by
184 @code{ess-create-object-name-db}) since modern computers seem fast
185 enough for dynamic completion. (We expect few users, if any, have
186 been using the pre-computed database method.)
187 @item ESS: object completion in iESS buffers running on Windows was
188 very slow (for GNU Emacs, but not XEmacs) and has now been fixed.
189 Further, it was more or less broken for all versions of S-plus 6.x,
190 and has been fixed to work everywhere but with the Windows' GUI of
191 S-plus. The list of objects now shows unique names also when an
192 object appears more than once in the search path.
193 @item @ESS{[R]}: Completion of object names now also includes those
197 Changes/New Features in 5.2.3:
199 @item ESS: When new inferior ESS processes are created, by default they
200 will replace the current buffer (this restores behavior from pre
201 5.2.0). If you wish new ESS processes to start in another window of the
202 current frame, set inferior-ess-same-window to nil.
203 @item New variables inferior-Splus-args and inferior-R-args provide a
204 way to pass command line arguments to starting S and R processes.
207 Changes/New Features in 5.2.2:
209 @item bug-fixes for 5.2.1 (require 'executable), html docs, etc.
210 @item ess-lisp-directory/../doc/info added to Info-directory-list
211 if ess-info not found by info
212 @item @ESS{[R]}: If you have other versions of R on your
213 exec-path, such as "R-1.8.1" with Unix or "rw1081" with Windows,
214 ESS will find them and create appropriate functions, such as
215 @kbd{M-x R-1.8.1} or @kbd{M-x rw1081}, for calling them.
216 By default only Unix programs beginning "R-1" and
217 "R-2" and Windows programs parallel to the
218 version of R in your exec-path will be found,
219 but see ess-r-versions and ess-rterm-versions for ways to find other
221 @item @ESS{[R]}: Other versions of R, such as "R-1.8.1" on Unix and "rw1081" on
222 Windows, are added to the
223 "ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
224 @item @ESS{[S]}: If you have other versions of S-Plus on your Windows computer,
225 such as S-Plus 6.1 or S-Plus 4.5, ESS will find them and create appropriate
226 functions, such as @kbd{M-x splus61}, for calling the console version (Sqpe)
227 inside an emacs buffer. By default only
228 programs installed in the default location will be found, but see
229 ess-SHOME-versions for ways to find other versions of S-Plus.
230 @item @ESS{[S]}: Other versions of Sqpe on Windows, such as "splus61",
232 "ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
233 @item @ESS{[R]}: (bug fix) ess-quit (bound to @kbd{C-c C-q}) should now quit the
234 inferior R process, when issued from either the inferior buffer, or from
238 Changes/New Features in 5.2.1:
240 @item @ESS{[S]} (R and S-plus): now have toolbar support
241 with icons to evaluate code in the inferior process or to switch
242 there. This code is experimental and likely to change as XEmacs/Emacs
243 issues get resolved. The toolbar should be enabled if your Emacs
244 displays images, but can be disabled with the variable ess-use-toolbar.
245 Thanks to David Smith from Insightful for the S-plus logo.
246 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: ess-sas-graph-view (@kbd{F12}) enhanced; you can specify
247 external file viewers for each graphics file type via the alist
248 ess-sas-graph-view-viewer-alist; also .jpg/.gif are now handled
249 by image-mode on XEmacs, if available, otherwise by graphics
253 Changes/New Features in 5.2.0:
255 @item @ESS{[BUGS]}: new info documentation! now supports interactive
256 processing thanks to @uref{mailto:Aki.Vehtari@@hut.fi, Aki Vehtari};
257 new architecture-independent unix support as well as support for BUGS v. 0.5
258 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: convert .log to .sas with ess-sas-transcript;
259 info documentation improved; Local Variable bug fixes;
260 SAS/IML statements/functions now highlighted; files edited
261 remotely by ange-ftp/EFS/tramp are recognized and pressing
262 SUBMIT opens a buffer on the remote host via the local variable
263 ess-sas-shell-buffer-remote-init which defaults to "ssh";
264 changed the definition of the variable ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle
265 to boolean rather than 0/1; added the function ess-electric-run-semicolon
266 which automatically reverse indents lines containing only "run;";
267 @kbd{C-F1} creates MS RTF portrait from the current buffer;
268 @kbd{C-F2} creates MS RTF landscape from the current buffer;
269 @kbd{C-F9} opens a SAS DATASET with PROC INSIGHT rather than PROC FSVIEW;
270 "inferior" aliases for SAS batch: @kbd{C-c C-r} for submit region,
271 @kbd{C-c C-b} for submit buffer, @kbd{C-c C-x} for goto .log; @kbd{C-c C-y} for goto .lst
272 @item @ESS{[S]}: Pressing underscore ("_") once inserts " <- " (as before);
273 pressing underscore twice inserts a literal underscore. To stop this
274 smart behaviour, add "(ess-toggle-underscore nil)" to your .emacs after
275 ess-site has been loaded;
276 ess-dump-filename-template-proto (new name!) now can be
277 customized successfully (for S language dialects);
278 Support for Imenu has been improved; set ess-imenu-use-S to non-nil to
279 get an "Imenu-S" item on your menubar;
280 ess-help: Now using nice underlines (instead of `nuke-* ^H_')
281 @item @ESS{[R]}: After (require 'essa-r), @kbd{M-x ess-r-var} allows to load
282 numbers from any Emacs buffer into an existing *R* process;
283 @kbd{M-x ess-rdired} gives a ``directory editor'' of R objects;
284 fixed ess-retr-lastvalue-command, i.e. .Last.value bug
285 (thanks to David Brahm)
286 @item ESS: Support for creating new window frames has been added to
287 ESS. Inferior ESS processes can be created in dedicated frames by
288 setting inferior-ess-own-frame to t. ESS help buffers can also open in
289 new frames; see the documentation for ess-help-own-frame for details.
290 (Thanks to Kevin Rodgers for contributing code.)
293 Changes/New Features in 5.1.24:
295 @item The version number is now correct even inside ESS/Emacs
298 Changes/New Features in 5.1.23:
300 @item Minor more Makefile clean up.
303 Changes/New Features in 5.1.22:
305 @item Besides info documentation, PDF and HTML
306 documentation are also provided (instead of built using "make") and available
307 on the web as well; see @uref{http://ess.r-project.org/,
308 ESS web page} and @uref{http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/doc, StatLib}
309 @item Now that info documentation is available, the
310 README.* files are no longer supported. However, they
311 are still distributed for what it's worth.
312 @item ESS is now an XEmacs package! See
313 @uref{http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html, XEmacs Installation HOWTO}
314 for details (specifically, items 10-15).
315 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: more user-friendly enhancements for remote
316 SAS batch jobs with Kermit file transfers (LOG and OUTPUT
317 function key features now supported). Multiple shells
318 now supported so you can run SAS on different computers
319 from different buffers by setting the buffer-local variable
320 ess-sas-shell-buffer to unique buffer names.
321 @item Major re-vamping of Makefile/Makeconf.
324 Changes/New Features in 5.1.21:
326 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: info documentation now available!, see
327 ESS->Help for SAS; @kbd{F12} opens GSASFILE nearest point for viewing
328 either within emacs, when available, or via an external viewer;
329 more syntax highlighting keywords; more enhancements for remote
330 SAS batch jobs with Kermit; new framework for remote SAS interactive
332 @item @ESS{[S]}: info documentation now available!, see
333 ESS->Help for the S family
334 @item Makefile: tag now independent of rel; info files
335 made by doc/Makefile and installed in new info sub-directory
338 Changes/New Features in 5.1.20:
340 @item New `options()$STERM' in the S dialects (S, S-Plus, R).
341 The S program can determine the environment in which it is
342 currently running. ESS sets the option to `iESS' or `ddeESS'
343 when it starts an S language process. We recommend other specific
344 values for S language processes that ESS does not start.
345 @item New `ess-mouse-me' function, assigned to S-mouse-3 by default.
346 User may click on a word or region and then choose from the
347 menu to display the item, or a summary, or a plot, etc.
348 This feature is still under development.
349 @item GNU Emacs 21.1 is now supported (fixed for S dialects, SAS & BUGS),
350 (some from Stephen Eglen).
351 @item XEmacs 21.x is now supported (fixed w32-using-nt bug)
352 @item XEmacs on Win (NT) is better supported.
353 @item Workaround for bug in Sqpe+6 (S-PLUS 6 for Win).
354 @item should now work even when imenu is not available (for old XEmacsen).
355 @item @ESS{[SAS]}: XEmacs-Imenu fix; @kbd{C-TAB} is globalized along with your
356 function-key definitions, if specified; you can specify your SAS
357 library definitions outside of autoexec.sas for ess-sas-data-view
358 with SAS code placed in the variable ess-sas-data-view-libname,
359 also the dataset name is defaulted to the nearest permanent dataset
360 to point; Speedbar support now works for permanent datasets, please
361 ignore first./last.; new font-locking is now the default with more
362 improvements for font-locking PROCs, macro statements, * ; and %* ;
363 comments; you can toggle sas-log-mode with @kbd{F10} which will font-lock
364 your .log (if it isn't too big); submit remote .sas files accessed
365 with ange-ftp, EFS or Tramp (Kermit is experimental) by setting
366 ess-sas-submit-method to 'sh; ess-sas-submit-command and
367 ess-sas-submit-command-options are buffer-local so you can have
368 local file variable sections at the end of your .sas files to
369 request different executables or specify special options and the
370 local file variables are re-read at submit instead of only at file
371 open so that if you make a change it is picked up immediately;
372 @item @ESS{[BUGS]}: font-lock with `in' fixed.
373 @item for STATA: font-lock bug fixed.
374 @item for Rd mode: @kbd{C-c C-v} and `switch-process' in menu.
375 further, @kbd{C-c C-f} prefix (Rd-font) for inserting or surrounding a word
376 by things such as \code@{.@}, \code@{\link@{.@}@}, \emph@{.@} etc.
377 @item new functions (ess-directory-function) and (ess-narrow-to-defun)
378 ess-directory <-> default-directory logic (Jeff Mincy).
379 @item Re-organized Makefile and fixed a few bugs.
382 Changes/New Features in 5.1.19:
384 @item S+6 now supported (Tony Rossini (Unix) and Rich Heiberger (Windows))
385 @item New BUGS support through @ESS{[BUGS]} mode (Rodney Sparapani)
386 Templates assist you in writing .bug and .cmd code (.cmd and .log
387 are replaced by .bmd and .bog to avoid emacs extension collisions).
388 Substitution" parameters facilitate "automagic" generation of
389 data...in" and "init...in" filenames, "const N=" from your data
390 file and "monitor()/stats()" commands. Activated by pressing @kbd{F12}.
391 @item Fixes for `ess-smart-underscore' SAS breakage (Rich Heiberger)
392 @item You can change between PC and Unix, local and global SAS function-key
393 definitions interactively (Rich Heiberger)
394 @item @kbd{C-Submit} a highlighted region to SAS batch (Rodney Sparapani)
395 @item New and improved SAS syntax highlighting (Rodney Sparapani)
396 To get the new functionality, set ess-sas-run-make-regexp to nil.
397 Also available in .log files via @kbd{F10}.
398 @item Open a permanent SAS dataset for viewing via @kbd{F9} (Rodney Sparapani)
399 You must have the library defined in autoexec.sas for it to work.
400 @item User-friendly defaults for `sas-program', `ess-sas-batch-pre-command'
401 and `ess-sas-batch-post-command' as well Customize support for these
402 and other @ESS{[SAS]} variables (Rodney Sparapani)
403 @item `ess-sas-suffix-2' now defaults to .dat via @kbd{F11} (Rodney Sparapani)
404 @item Emacs/XEmacs, Unix/Windows issues collectively handled in ess-emcs.el
405 @item defadvice solves problem of missing *ESS* (thanks to Jeff Mincy)
406 @item Improved manual a bit by including things that were only in `README'.
409 Changes/New Features in 5.1.18:
411 @item New `ess-smart-underscore' function, now assigned to "_" by default.
412 Inserts `ess-S-assign' (customizable " <- "), unless inside string
413 and comments where plain "_" is used instead. (MM)
414 @item Fixes for longstanding interactive SAS breakage (RMH)
417 Changes/New Features in 5.1.17:
419 @item Documentation for Windows Installation (Rich Heiberger)
420 @item removal of ess-vars, finalization of customize support (in the
421 sense that there is no more use of ess-vars, but that we need to
422 fix ess-cust) (AJ Rossini)
423 @item Many small (and large) fixes/contributions (MMaechler)
424 @item addition of the "S-equal" variable and provide @kbd{M-x ess-add-MM-keys}
425 a way to remap "_" to `ess-S-assign', typically " <- ", but
426 customizable. (MMaechler)
429 Changes/New Features in 5.1.16:
432 @item Better SAS support
435 Changes/New Features in 5.1.15:
440 Changes/New Features in 5.1.14:
442 @item Yet more fixes to SAS mode, (Rich Heiberger and Rodney Sparapani)
443 @item Customize support (for most Emacsen which support it) (AJRossini)
444 @item ARC and ViSta support out of the box, and fixes for XLispStat (AJRossini)
447 Changes/New Features in 5.1.13:
449 @item Version numbering finally all depending on the ./VERSION file,
450 thanks to Martin Maechler.
451 @item Yet more fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rich Heiberger.
454 Changes/New Features in 5.1.12:
456 @item Splus 5.1 stabilized, thanks to Martin Maechler, Bill Venables,
457 Chuck Taylor, and others.
458 @item More fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
462 Changes/New Features in 5.1.11:
464 @item More fixes to Stata mode, thanks to
465 @uref{mailto:brendan@@essex.ac.uk, Brendan Halpin}.
466 @item fixed bugs in ESS-elsewhere, thanks to many testers
467 @item README.SPLUS4WIN has DETAILED instructions for S-PLUS 2000, thanks
468 to @uref{mailto:brahm@@alum.mit.edu, David Brahm}.
469 @item Fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
472 Changes/New Features in 5.1.10:
474 @item More fixes to Stata mode
475 @item primitive generic version of ESS-elsewhere
476 @item Small fixes to SAS/Stata.
479 Changes/New Features in 5.1.9:
481 @item Stata mode works
482 @item Literate Data Analysis using Noweb works
485 Changes/New Features in 5.1.8:
488 @item R documentation mode defaults changed
491 Changes/New Features in 5.1.2:
493 @item able to use inferior iESS mode to
494 communicate directly with a running S-Plus 4.x process using the
495 Microsoft DDE protocol. We use the familiar (from Unix ESS) @kbd{C-c C-n}
496 and related key sequences to send lines from the S-mode file to the
497 inferior S process. We continue to edit S input files in @ESS{[S]} mode
498 and transcripts of previous S sessions in ESS Transcript mode. All
499 three modes know the S language, syntax, and indentation patterns and
500 provide the syntactic highlighting that eases the programming tasks.